My weekly post about old school hip-hop...Why can't hip-hop be grimey anymore?

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

I was on youtube watching some old video's (I really only listen to 98% old hip-hop)...

Eazy E- "Real Mutherfuckin G's"

Bone- "Thuggish Ruggish Bone"

Bone- "Foe the Luv of Money"

Bone-  "1rst of the Month"

^^ Those are the video's I watched and I was just thinking, how come hip-hop can't be grimey anymore?  Everything has to be so Hollywood, and fancy, these dudes like T.I. and 50 Cent are dressing up like they are in a modeling ad for Polo or something in their video's.... Look at the style Bone had back in the day, they are all rockin fro's, hair pics, shower caps, plain black t-shirts and cackies, plad shirts, low-budget video's, just hanging out and keepin it real, less is more.

[The "Untouchable" DJR]

Real Muthaphucckin G'z is one of my favourite songs ever and it had a nice vid too, when I finally taped it off of TV I used to watch it over and over again. That was in a time when I used to appreciate hip hop videos and could watch them more than once, nowadays I don't even care if there's a video for a certain song I can barely sit through them.

But this is hip hop 2007 and I haven't been keeping track of what song has a video a long time ago...

[AndrE16686]

I was on youtube watching some old video's (I really only listen to 98% old hip-hop)...

Eazy E- "Real Mutherfuckin G's"

Bone- "Thuggish Ruggish Bone"

Bone- "Foe the Luv of Money"

Bone-  "1rst of the Month"

^^ Those are the video's I watched and I was just thinking, how come hip-hop can't be grimey anymore?  Everything has to be so Hollywood, and fancy, these dudes like T.I. and 50 Cent are dressing up like they are in a modeling ad for Polo or something in their video's.... Look at the style Bone had back in the day, they are all rockin fro's, hair pics, shower caps, plain black t-shirts and cackies, plad shirts, low-budget video's, just hanging out and keepin it real, less is more.

You know the answer. Hip-hop is more corporate thesedays, more exposure around (more magazines, websites, tv spots ) for artists, those mediums become just as important as the album product itself. its a competition to be the flyest, be the most trendy, slang the magazines, product endorsements, videos for teenybop music video shows, etc.

Then there is the other Hip-hop that lives on regardless of record sales or interest rates, its your flatmate drunk freestyling in the livingroom, the crews in Japan bombing up trainyards, some dude in Sweden trying to breakdance after watching Wildstyle, a kid in Canada listening to Liquid Swords for the first time......

[Lunatic]

I was on youtube watching some old video's (I really only listen to 98% old hip-hop)...

Eazy E- "Real Mutherfuckin G's"

Bone- "Thuggish Ruggish Bone"

Bone- "Foe the Luv of Money"

Bone-  "1rst of the Month"

^^ Those are the video's I watched and I was just thinking, how come hip-hop can't be grimey anymore?  Everything has to be so Hollywood, and fancy, these dudes like T.I. and 50 Cent are dressing up like they are in a modeling ad for Polo or something in their video's.... Look at the style Bone had back in the day, they are all rockin fro's, hair pics, shower caps, plain black t-shirts and cackies, plad shirts, low-budget video's, just hanging out and keepin it real, less is more.

You know the answer. Hip-hop is more corporate thesedays, more exposure around (more magazines, websites, tv spots ) for artists, those mediums become just as important as the album product itself. its a competition to be the flyest, be the most trendy, slang the magazines, product endorsements, videos for teenybop music video shows, etc.

Then there is the other Hip-hop that lives on regardless of record sales or interest rates, its your flatmate drunk freestyling in the livingroom, the crews in Japan bombing up trainyards, some dude in Sweden trying to breakdance after watching Wildstyle, a kid in Canada listening to Liquid Swords for the first time......

+1...THE TRUTH HAS BEEN SPOKEN

but u can't blame the artists for going with what's "in"...the way eazy & bone thugs did it in there day IS similar 2 the way T.I. & 50 do it now...both era's followed what was/is being bought into

[AndrE16686]

^^props back holmes,

me thinks it isn't necessarily an issue of blame, cus then we would be pointing fingers forever, its more about respect, I respect 50 for his hustle as a man, but not really for his contribution to MC-ing as an artform. As for T.I. , i like him, he does what 50 does but better with more class and intelligence. In 'Dopeman' he is actually saying more than just 'im the dopeman nigga, the dopeman nigga, the dopeman nigga', the song isn't actually about selling dope in order to be the dopeman. Regardless, these dudes are not on the same MC cloud as say the Ghost or the Rza or Ill Bill. Like Rae said 'you was born to be a pawn but imma bishop'.

[Lord Funk]

lol ...

cackies

Do you mean khakis?

[Sanford - V. President of the Dangerous Crew Movement]

lol ...

cackies

Do you mean khakis?

you know he aint from California.  LOL

[Oklin]

this is hip hop 2007

The dope hip hop music does still excist though, and I bet that there still are grimey hiphop, you just gotta dig for it, cuz nowadays the mainstream is 95% kiddy rap

[QuietTruth]

I love the east coast grimey Hip Hop.

[Bulldog - Your Not Gafflin Nobody]

I love the east coast grimey Hip Hop.

real talk. especially the old mobb deep, and wu tang. shit was grimier that a fucking coal mine.

[The "Untouchable" DJR]

I love the east coast grimey Hip Hop.

real talk. especially the old mobb deep, and wu tang. shit was grimier that a fucking coal mine.

Yeah especially the mid 90s east coast hip hop, I mostly listened to west coast stuff at that time but I also loved listening to GZA, Smoothe Da Hustler, Mobb Deep, Nine etc.

[MontrealCity's Most]

lol ...

cackies

Do you mean khakis?

lol

[Bulldog - Your Not Gafflin Nobody]

cackies sund like something nasty lol

[WC Iz Active]

dipset is grimey

[Bulldog - Your Not Gafflin Nobody]

dipset about as grimey as the spice girls fool.